Harry Reid: “We need to move this bill along. We need help from the membership of this Senate. Staff has worked hard to work down the…”

“We need to move this bill along. We need help from the membership of this Senate. Staff has worked hard to work down the amendments, and they have a fairly finite list now. But there is talk now that there are some issues still unresolved by Members of the Senate. If people are going to be in disagreement, let them come out here and tell us what is wrong with the bill. We need to move forward. This is a very important piece of legislation. It is our sixth appropriations bill. When we finish, we still have seven to go. This country is in a state of emergency. We need to do the work of the Congress, and the work of the Congress at this stage, nearing the end of the appropriations season, is to finish these bills by the end of the fiscal year. That is looking very dubious at this time. So we have to move forward. I repeat, the two managers are the best we have, or as good as we have; that is for certain. We have to move this bill along.”